Wednesday 29 October 2014

A pile of presents with berries, pine cones and holly leaves

Hi everybody,

A while back Wild Orchid Crafts introduced various gorgeous Christmas berry sprays and my favorite right away was the one with red Christmas Berries, pine cones and holly leaves. Today I'd like to share a card that I made with just one of these gorgeous sprays.
The image is by Lili of the Valley and is called Pile of Presents. The paper that I used are old ones by Basic Grey and I thought they matched the spray perfectly.
A close up of the image. I colored the image again to match the pretty spray and the gorgeous red open roses.
And a close up of the berries, leaves and pine cones. As I mentioned I only used one of these sprays, I even have some berries left. I thought I'd explain how I used the spray. I removed the tape with which the leaves, berries and pine cones are attached to each other, cut of a bit of the excess stamens and slipped the stamens under the image that I glued on the card base with thick 3D glue (the glue was of course still wet when I did this). With a little syringe I added a bit more glue underneath the pine cones and the berries but I'm pretty sure they would have stuck in place without that drop of glue ones the 3D glue had completely dried.

I hope you like my Christmas card and love these gorgeous sprays as much as I do. Have a great day everybody!

Hugs,






Materials used from Wild Orchid Crafts:
Red Christmas berry spray with pine cones & holly leaves
25mm Red mulberry paper open roses

Tuesday 28 October 2014

Halloween Mouse Trap by Irina


Trellis roses Peach/orange 36/40mm MKX-093 
Trellis roses Purple/Lilac 36/40mm MKX -094 
Hip rosebuds Peach mix GST-062 
Open rose vintage color 15/ 20/ 25 mm MKX-043

Monday 27 October 2014

Exploding box

Hello everyone :)
Today I want to show you an exploding box with lots of beautiful flowers and butterflies.


I used beautiful lilies and tea roses and added lots of sweet tiny rosebuds. I tried to create a little garden inside of the box.



Wild Orchid Crafts products:
Mixed Color "Tea" Roses 25mm





Have a nice day,
Monika 

Sunday 26 October 2014

Ice Skating

Hi there, here’s another Christmas card, my card stash is stacking up nicely this year.

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.And I used some delicious goodies from Wild Orchid Crafts.  Isn’t that corner from the mixed metal embellishments just sublime?  I tarted it up a bit with a vintage cabochon Copenhagen, and added a snowflake from the metal Christmas embellishments set.  And then I used a magnolia (still my favourite flower), some lilies and open roses (15mm) and finished off with some pearls.

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The natural cotton lace is also from WOC.

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hugs

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Friday 24 October 2014

Tutorial - Altered Pringles Can into a Box by Angela


Beaded Flowers
Hip Rose Buds
White Magnolias
Large Pink Roses
Heather Stem Flowers

Homemade Trinket Boxes by Tmika

20 PEACH/ORANGE TEA ROSES - QVR-016
100 MIXED VINTAGE OPEN ROSES - MKX-043
50 MIXED PASTEL CHERRY BLOSSOMS - MKX 247
MIXED PASTERL TONE CHRYSANTHEMUMS - QVR-039
2 TONE CHAMPANGE HIP ROSE BUDS - MKX-298
WHITE DOUBLE HEAD STAMENS - MKX-565
WHITE LEAVES - MKX-449
WHITE PEARL LOOP SPRAY STEMS - MKX-180
HIP ROSE BUDS WHITE -
WHITE SELF ADHESIVE PEARL - MKX-496
PEARL FLOURISH - MKX-215
9 WHITE CABOCHON ANGELS MKX-189

Thursday 23 October 2014

Pastel card

Hello Wild Orchid Crafts Friends!

Klaudia is here. Today I want to share with you a pastel card. I wanted a fresh and springy look so I combined watercolor looking paper and pretty flowers in pastel colors.







I hope you like my card.
Thanks for stopping by :)
Have a nice day,
Klaudia


Supplies from WOC:
PURPLE/WHITE COSMOS DAISY STEM FLOWERS
MIXED PURPLE/LILAC & WHITE SWEETHEART BLOSSOM
MIXED BLUE MULBERRY PAPER LILY FLOWERS
WHITE HIP ROSEBUDS
2-TONE MULBERRY PAPER ROSE LEAVES - 20mm

Wednesday 22 October 2014

Wedding anniversary card

Hi everybody,

Today I'd like to show you a card I made over the weekend for a 25 year wedding anniversary we went to. I didn't have a lot of time to craft the past week so it's a simple card but I hope you like it anyway.
The cute image I used is one of the Flower Fairies by Wee Stamps. I made a computer generated sentiment, added a bit of stitching to make it stand out a bit more and added some gorgeous flowers. A few die cuts here and there and that's it really. A very simple card to put some money in.
And a picture of the gorgeous flowers by Wild Orchid Crafts.

Have a great day everybody!
Hugs,






Wild Orchid Crafts products used:
Baby Pink Cherry Blossoms
Mixed Pink/White Sweetheart Blossoms
Mixed Pink/White Cosmos Daisy Flowers
2-tone Baby Pink Hellebore Paper Flowers

Mixed Media chest by Olga

Today I used my wild Orchid flowers to decorate the top of my box. Its wooden chest decorated with some textures media and flowers.


I use:
         100 2-TONE MULBERRY PAPER ROSE LEAVES - 20mm
  • Model: MKX-447
    50 WHITE MULBERRY PAPER MAGNOLIAS
  • Model: QVR-028
    MIXED MULBERRY PAPER FLOWERS
  • Model: MKX-311
    50 IVORY HIP ROSEBUDS
  • Model: GST-063

Shabby Box by Tricia


mixed curly roses MKX-647
trellis roses MKX-094
mixed lily flowers MKX-130
mixed Chrysanthemums QVR-005
lilac seam binding MKX-490
mixed hip rosebuds GST-018
pearl in diamond circle MKX-657
lace MKX-276
lace MKX-224
lace MKX-302
mixed tulips MKX-268

Sunday 19 October 2014

Sarah Kay Noel

Hi there, here’s another Christmas card.

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The rhinestones, seam binding and flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.  The flowers are wild rose, open roses 15mm.  I got a bit carried away with the rhinestones and dotted them amongst the flowers for an extra bit of sparkle

 

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Love the dimension of the double bow.

 

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hugs

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Saturday 18 October 2014

Gift Topper by Tammy


White Hellebores Flowers MKS-192
Mixed Red Tea Roses 40mm QVR-054
Ivory Almond blossom Fabric Flowers MKX-289
Mixed White Flowers & Embellishment Starter Pack MKX-323
Mixed Color Tea Roses 25mm QVR-034
Mixed Miniature Gardenia Flowers MKX-198
Mixed Open Roses 10mm MKX-305
Ivory Handmade Bead Flowers MKX-270
White Christmas Berry Spray MKX-359
White Cabochon Angels MKX-189
Silver Metal Christmas Tree Embellishments GST-147
Small silver Filigree Corners

Altered Key by Angela

Thursday 16 October 2014

Card with wooden background

Hello everyone,
Klaudia here, today I am sharing with you my latest card.
I made it using paper with wooden pattern, I added brick wall chipboard and a lot of beautiful roses.


And some close ups.


I wish you a great day!
Klaudia

Supplies from WOC:
MIXED PINK OPEN ROSES: 10mm, 15mm, 20mm
PALE PEACH MULBERRY PAPER COTTAGE ROSES
PASTEL TONE MULBERRY PAPER ROSEBUDS ⅛" (4mm)
2-TONE MULBERRY PAPER ROSE LEAVES - 20mm

Wednesday 15 October 2014

A box of flower bulbs

Hi everybody,

Today I'd like to show a little gift I made for my mum. It's a little milk carton like box with a holder (from a template that I purchased) filled with flower bulbs.
I have had this cute Lady Gnome image by Pink Cat Studio for ages and thought she was perfect for this project so colored her with my Copic Markers and 3D paper pieced her. On this picture you can see the milk carton in the holder with a pretty corner of flowers.
And here you can see the two separated. As you can see part of the flowers are attached to the holder and part are attached to the milk carton.
Put back together they form a gorgeous flowery corner to the box. Perfect I think for a box with flower bulbs!
And finally a close up of those pretty flowers. I adore the combination of green and purple-ish flowers.

I hope you'll find some time to get crafty today. The weather here in The Netherlands is absolutely perfect for it at the moment. Have a great day everybody!

Hugs,






Wild Orchid Crafts products used:
Vintage Seam Binding Ribbon Moss Green
Mixed Green Open Roses 25mm
Mixed Green Open Roses 15mm
Purple/White Cosmos Daisy Flowers
Mixed Purple/Lilac & White Sweetheart Blossoms
Lilac Open Roses 20mm
Raspberry Divine Bakers Twine

Monday 13 October 2014

Mixed Media Canvas by Tricia


mixed white/pink sweetheart blossoms MKX-637
mixed lily flowers MKX-197
mixed miniature gardenia MKX-198
baby pink lily flowers MKX-136
pastel colour tulip flowers MKX-212
40mm pink trellis roses MKX-092
mixed small gardenia QVR-001
white magnolias OVR-028
10 metal embellishments MKX-287

For the teacher

Hello.
Today I want to show you a card I made for my daughter`s teacher. I made a rectangular card with a band and as alway I added lots of flowers. This time I used beautiful baby pink hellebore flowers, hip rosebuds, sweetheat blossoms and tiny pastel tone rosebuds.




Some flowers I glued on the band and some on the card, they make together beautiful flower arrangement.  



Materials from Wild Orchid Crafts:


Mixed Purple/Lilac & White Sweetheart Blossom
Off White Hip Rosebuds
Pastel Tone Rosebuds 4mm

Have a nice day!
Monika

Sunday 12 October 2014

Christmas Bell Ornament

Hi there, here’s another ornament, I am loving making these so much and have so many ideas for more.   I have used the SCD Christmas Moments sentiment set for the sentiments on the front and back of the ornament.  I thought the Peace Love Joy sentiment was just perfect for the design.

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And a peek at the back

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And another look at the flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.  I used gold glitter glue on the flowers for a change.  I used a magnolia (my favourite flower at the moment), lilies, cosmos daisy, open roses, spiral stamens, and finished off with some rhinestones and tiny little pine cones that I picked up whilst out walking the dogs. 

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